Mizzy Mint > Mizzy's Quotes

“I didn’t gouge them out, Butcher. I plucked them. Delicately. Like a lady.”
― Brynne Weaver, Butcher & Blackbird

“The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.”
― Marion Woodman

“Love is the real power. It's the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it. It brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with--everyone blooms.”
― Marion Woodman

“This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.”
― Marion Woodman

“It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone”
― Marion Woodman

“When the power comes from within us and we claim it as our own, then we no longer have to affirm ourselves by dominating others. The irony is that we are actually afraid of our own power.”
― Marion Woodman, Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness

“Kill the imagination and you kill the soul. Kill the soul and you're left with a listless, apathetic creature who can become hopeless or brutal or both.”
― Marion Woodman, Bone: Dying into Life

“Let's break magick down into two types - psychological (self) magick wherein the magician takes an active role in creating positive energy and directing it toward a goal, and physical magick wherein the magician actually changes or creates the physical or existing state of something or someone.”
― S. Connolly, The Complete Book of Demonolatry

“It is with this in mind that I encourage you to have no fear of Death, for Death is patient. It is kind. It is…inevitable.”
― Mortellus, The Bones Fall in a Spiral: A Necromantic Primer

“The most problematic depression episodes plunge me into a feeling of disconnection. I am no longer a part of the world. All the colours, meaning and richness become hidden or lost to me. There is a numbing absence of feeling that strips away any inspiration and creativity. I become dead to myself, a husk, a shell. The fall into this state can be violently fast, although the triggers have all been external. Life does not treat many of us kindly. Most of the time, I draw inspiration from the world around me. That sense of connection to all other living and perhaps-not-living things nourishes and sustains me. Being pushed out of that sense of belonging is brutal. I have self-esteem issues and, subjected as I was to barrages of abuse, bitter criticism, invasive scrutiny and some terrifying processes in my life, I’ve been crushed, repeatedly. I’ve come to places where I’ve felt so awful that the only imaginable way out, I thought, was to die. I’m still alive because of the love and dedication of my husband. I hold the hope that I won’t have to crawl through hell again anytime soon, that I can build internal reserves strong enough to resist external pressures.”
― Cat Treadwell, Facing the Darkness

“...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatness was ‘savage’ and ‘black.”
― Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

“The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail against persons deemed too fat or too thin. But over time, a growing number did so specifically, and exclusively, to condemn fatness.”
― Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.”
― Sarah Beth Durst

“Of course knowledge is dangerous. But ignorance is even more dangerous”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“Books should be shared with everyone who wants to open their minds and hearts to them.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“We can only control what we do and hope that other people make the right choice.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“There's no such thing as a weed," Cas said. "That's a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as 'unwanted' and some as 'valuable,' as if the worth of a living thing is measured by how useful it is to another living thing. As if a plant can't gave its own intrinsic worth.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“You know, plants aren't nearly as emotionally exhausting as humans. You should try to be more plant”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“I want to know you better."
"No, you don't. I'm not friendly. I like to be alone."
"You can be alone with me.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Spellshop

“My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.”
― Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

“Damien had to bite the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing. “Surely, I don’t look like that.” “It’s close,” she warned, features relaxing. “You have resting villain face.” “I am a villain.” And then Amma, the girl he had abducted, dragged across the realm, and threatened to murder, actually rolled her eyes at him.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark

“Did you hear that?” Amma’s sharp whisper cut into Damien’s mind as it began to drift into sleep. He groaned. “You mean that terrifying cry that sounded like a woman being gutted?” “Yes!” “No, I didn’t. Go to sleep.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark

“My life’s work,” said Damien, lips curling at the corners and thin, black brows narrowing. “It is finally complete.” He was twenty-seven.”
― A.K. Caggiano, Throne in the Dark

“Trust literal demons to be kinder to their children than the American education system.”
― Sarah Hawley, A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon

“There is so much that can be fixed by honesty, if you're brave enough to use it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“You just can't kill people and be pretty. It's confusing.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“We're all monsters in the end. At least mine lives in the light.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

“I was born singing. Most babies cry, I sang an aria.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest

“Who judges the judge who judges wrong?”
― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest